[transmediale] tm salon: Inke Arns: Netzkulturen, Di 7. Mai

Andreas Broeckmann abroeck at transmediale.de
Mo Mai 6 15:46:51 CEST 2002


(English version below)


transmediale salon: Netzkulturen - mit Inke Arns (Berlin)

Dienstag, 7. Mai 2002, 20.00 Uhr

Podewil, Klosterstr.68-70, Berlin-Mitte, Eintritt: EUR 4/5

Das soeben erschienene Buch der Berliner Kunst- und Medienwissenschaftlerin
Inke Arns heisst 'Netzkulturen' (Europaeische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg 2002;
EUR 8,60) und bietet eine Uebersicht ueber deren Entwicklung waehrend der
1990er Jahre. Der Band beschaeftigt sich vor allem mit den politischen,
kuenstlerischen und sozialen Dimensionen des Internets und stellt
Zusammenhaenge dar, die ausserhalb eingeweihter Kreise bislang kaum bekannt
waren. Inke Arns, die selber als Initiatorin an zahlreichen internationalen
Projekten, Netzwerken und Mailing-Listen beteiligt gewesen ist, gibt an
diesem Abend eine illustrierte Einfuehrung in die 'Netzkulturen'.

http://home.snafu.de/inke/Netzkulturen/
http://www.v2.nl/~arns/

Mit einem Buechertisch von pro-qm (www.pro-qm.de).


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Naechste Veranstaltung: transmediale salon
mit dem Kuenstler Jordan Crandall (30. Mai 2002)
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transmediale salon: Net Cultures
Tuesday, 7 May 2002, 20.00
Podewil, Klosterstr.68-70, Berlin-Mitte, Eintritt: EUR 4/5

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Inke Arns presents her new book, Netzkulturen.

Since the development of graphic web interfaces in the beginning of the
1990s the use of
the Internet and/or Web has risen dramatically. Here, new spaces of
potentiality are
developing which lead to the development of specific net cultural
practices. The
development of these practices is in large part due to the usage of digital
‘minor media’
(a.k.a. tactical media, sovereign media) which not only allow the users to
read (passively),
but which, most importantly, enable them to write (actively). ‘Minor media’
can thus be
defined as practices, rather than distinct technologies.

After providing a brief overview over the historical development of the
Internet since the
1960s, Netzkulturen / Net Cultures gives a broad introduction to the net
cultures of the
1990s, which predominantly deal with the political, artistic and social
dimensions of the
Internet and which are opposed to its commercialisation. The Net now
becomes, e.g., a
political tool: 'context-systems', as well as various (communication
enabling respectively
blocking) net activisms employ new net-specific strategies for the
realisation of net internal
or external political and social goals. At the same time there developed a
specific 'net art'
which deals with the Net artistically / aesthetically and whose development was
predominantly influenced by artists and activists from Eastern Europe.
Finally, over the
last ten years in Europe and beyond there emerged a filigrane network of
independent
media cultural institutions, groups and translocal communities
communicating via mailing
lists whose members critically reflect the political, cultural and
economical consequences
of the Internet and the social consequences of technological developments
in general.

Inke Arns. Netzkulturen. Europaeische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg, 2002
http://home.snafu.de/inke/Netzkulturen

http://www.v2.nl/~arns/



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Next event: transmediale salon with artist Jordan Crandall (30 May 2002)
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